Paris Plans ‘Spy Car’ Fleet to Fine Drivers Who Break Parking Rules

Authorities in Paris are planning to roll out a fleet of “spy cars” to automatically levy fines on unruly drivers who refuse to pay the city’s parking charges.City mayor Anne Hidalgo has proposed using 20 cars fitted with monitoring technology to catch out those cheating the system.The vehicles are capable of scanning 1,500 cars an hour to see whether they have paid relevant parking charges in the city center, according to The Times of London.The cars offer a potential fix to Paris’s laughably dysfunctional parking enforcement system, which is ignored by the vast majority of drivers.